So this was us today...

Lots of crabiness and grumping about these constant My Father's World Adventures notebooking pages we're doing, eyes glazing over while I read one of the spines which even I thought was a yawn and quickly figured out not to read all 5 pages that were scheduled, but to skim ahead and summarize. 

A little while later, I decided enough was enough and got out some picture books and a chapter book I knew they would like.  Complete silence, happy kids gathered around me on the playroom loveseat. 

Obviously I'll have to start doing some tweaking.     I'm glad I've tried several different approaches with them, because it's helping me figure out what works best for us.  I've gotta say, I find the notebooking and other projects very time consuming and am dissapointed in the low amount of reading aloud we're doing.  But we're only on week 2 and it will take awhile to find our rhythm and tailor it a bit.